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How dark patterns help brands like Temu and Shein to drive sales

Inside Retail

However, lurking in the shadows are what are known as ‘dark patterns’, intricately designed digital experiences that exploit human psychology – often at the expense of users’ best interests. In essence, a dark pattern is a devised user interface or interaction design that guides users into taking actions they might not have intended.

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Profit from Drytac’s pattern coating science

Drytac

Taking this a step further, Drytac, which offers products across all the main adhesive technologies, has developed a pattern coating process to apply adhesive in dots, lines or various differing shapes to offer maximum performance to customers. Another advantage of pattern coating is the reduced consumption of adhesive products.

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“We can’t afford it” and other plus-size fashion excuses designers make

Inside Retail

We, like many others, curate our Instagram feed and focus on things that make us feel good. In her experience, she says that, “When running a business after calculating the expenses of wages, rent, supplies, patterns, marketing, etc the cost of increasing to a larger size is marginal.”. “As Our guess, not many. Not making the cut.

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Stephanie Thatenhorst bedecks kid-friendly optician in graphic patterns

Dezeen

Triangular patterned tiles and an eyewear-dispensing machine feature in Stephanie Thatenhorst's playful interior for this children's optician in Munich. Among the other projects nominated in the category is Flamingo Estate's Harvest Shop , which is anchored by a rammed-earth counter excavated from the brand's own garden.

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How Amazon, Temu and Shein are disrupting Australian retail today

Inside Retail

Amazon grows, the Australian marketplace sector evolves Marketplaces present major opportunities for local brands today, with Pattern research highlighting that 94 per cent of Australians plan to buy from a marketplace over the coming year. million monthly site visits. million users by June last year. million active shoppers globally.

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How image management contributes to end-of-year burnout

Inside Retail

This is when people fail to speak up, admit mistakes, and are too afraid to let others know that they’ve reached the limit of their capacity, out of fear that they’ll be judged as incompetent. Be sure to continue your usual health and sleep patterns, find time for small breaks in the office and don’t overload your weekends.

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Times are changing for traditional trading patterns

Retail Insider

While they would invariably be rammed on Friday and Saturday nights, they’d then be bereft of any trade on the other days of the week. Far too many high-end provincial restaurants have traditionally suffered from everybody wanting to eat at around 7:30pm on Friday and Saturday evenings, and sadly abandoning such places on every other day.

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